Montreal Bagels et Poutine à San Diego

[peekay]

http://sandiego.eater.com/2015/2/2/7963755/real-deal-montreal-style-bagels-poutine-for-hillcrest

 

Our beloved Eater Street Team spotted a sign posted on a Hillcrest storefront at 142 University Avenue, Suite C and asked us to sleuth out the story behind the Montreal style authentic poutine and bagels being advertised as coming soon.

 

Mess Royale Poutine & Bagels will in fact serve the real thing when it opens in March— hand-rolled St-Viateur Bagels from the legendary bagel bakery whose flagship store is located in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal.

 

The new Hillcrest eatery will be receiving shipments of the bagels, which are boiled in honey water then cooked in a wood fired oven, three times a week. Owner Hugo Tassone says that initially, the bagels will be used as bread for sandwiches and offered with cream cheese or butter for breakfast before being able to be purchased by the dozen.

 

Tassone, who hails from Eastern Canada, has a background in food industry and has been visiting San Diego for the last 20 years. He hopes that Mess Royale will be his first of many shops to feature Montreal-inspired gourmet comfort food.

 

Other specialities will include poutine, made with twice-cooked fries, cheese curds and homemade gravy, available as is or topped with everything from bacon to chicken and lobster. There will also be grilled cheese sandwiches, pulled pork sandwiches on brioche buns, four ounces of thick cut bacon on a stick and Montreal-style hot dogs, which come on either a steamed or toasted bun with mustard, relish, onions and a special slaw. For dessert, Mess Royale will serve a "treat royale", also known as a Canadian beavertail, which spreads sweet toppings on a paddle of fried dough.

[denpanosekai]

Very nice. Good luck Hugo!

[MtlMan]

I definitely can see a "Montreal-style" restaurant with many franchises in North America. Montreal has a good name and reputation. The thing would be to assure good-quality smoked-meat, curds and bagels to really build on the reputation of our comfort food.

 

It is not far-fetched to see a bright future for something like this, especially poutine, all around NA.

[jesseps]

I wish them all the best. It will be interesting to see Montreal-style bagels / Poutines expand across the US and maybe into South America.

[montréaliste]

I remember eating at a deli called Hillcrest diner in 1990 in San Diego. I have a menu somewhere and they were serving Montreal Smoked Meat back then too!